I'm trying to find her parents, marriage date, anything else about her linage mostly. It's been a dead end so far but I have come across a curious puzzle: Nancy Ward was a well known Cherokee woman of the time and Mary Ann Ward-Douglass named her daughter Nancy. Nancy Douglass married Thomas Bennett and has at least two children; their son Oliver Hazard Perry Bennett appears to have been named after Oliver Hazard Perry Brewer another notable member of the Cherokee nation. Nancy and Thomas' daughter Oragon then marries a Brewer man named Melvin Green Brewer.

Was it normal at this time to name children after notable Cherokee individuals? or was Oliver Hazard Perry a common name? I know Nancy is. Insight? Clues?